Happy Roald Dahl Day!

The Enormous Crocodile

The Big Friendly Giant

'A dream,' he said, 'as it goes WHIFFLING trough the night air, is making a little BUZZING-HUMMING noise. But this little BUZZY-HUM is so silvery soft, it is IMPOSSIBLE or a human bean to be HEARING it'.

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

The Giraffe's NECK, which HEAVEN knows was long enough already, began to grow LONGER and LONGER and LONGER and LONGER and HIGHER and HIGHER and HIGHER...

Esio Trot

Postcards sent by John (the UK).

Pokój

This is the latest envelope I have got for the Peace Stamp Project. I have got some wonderful envelopes from different countries. 

And I still hope to get some more! These are the missing countries in my collection:

Åland | Andorra (French Post) | Andorra (Spanish Post) | Armenian Post Of Nagorno-Karabakh | Azerbaijan | Azores | Belgium | Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serb Post) | Bosnia And Herzegovina | Bosnia And Herzegovina (Croat Post) | Bulgaria | Cyprus (Turkish Post) | Denmark | Estonia | Faroe Islands | Gibraltar | Greece | Greenland | Guernsey | Hungary | Isle of Man | Jersey | Kazakhstan | Kosovo | Liechtenstein | Luxembourg | Madeira | Malta | Moldova | Monaco | Montenegro | North-Macedonia | Norway | Portugal | San Marino | Serbia | Slovakia | Sweden | Turkey | Vatican

Do Not Choose Extinction

I got this postcard from Phillip (the USA), with a significant advice:

READ TOGETHER
Don't let your imagination
become extinct!

And matching stamps of Toni Morrison with a first day pictorial postmark:

Few days later, a postcard from Bryon reminded me not to choose extinction. A UN mini-sheet and stamp on the back...

... And an almost extinct species on the front!

Sunday Stamps | Roads

Two stamps issued in Malaysia in 2011, dedicated to Underground Engineering Excellence. I find rather curious the second stamp, featuring a schematic cross-section on the SMART Tunnel.

The M4 Viaduct stamp belongs to the 1968 British Bridges series.  

This is also a post for Sunday Stamps, today's topic being Roads.

Postbox Saturday | Castellet

A wall postbox in a small village called Castellet (='Little Castle), in Catalonia. I had published another picture of this nice place.

Letter to You

Letter to You

Bruce Springsteen

’Neath a crowd of mongrel trees

I pulled that bothersome thread

Got down on my knees

Grabbed my pen and bowed my head

Tried to summon all that my heart finds true

And send it in my letter to you

 

Things I found out through hard times and good

I wrote ’em all out in ink and blood

Dug deep in my soul and signed my name true

And sent it in my letter to you

 

In my letter to you

I took all my fears and doubts

In my letter to you

All the hard things I found out

In my letter to you

All that I’ve found true

And I sent it in my letter to you

 

I took all the sunshine and rain

All my happiness and all my pain

The dark evening stars

And the morning sky of blue

And I sent it in my letter to you

And I sent it in my letter to you

 

In my letter to you

I took all my fears and doubts

In my letter to you

All the hard things that I found out

In my letter to you

All that I found true

And I sent it in my letter to you

I sent it in my letter to you

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Wild Life

Búho real (Royal Owl)

The topic of the first Thursday Postcard Hunt is Tourist Sites - Nature reserves, parks, gardens. I am posting two recent incoming postcards from the Parque Natural Sierra de Cazorla, Segura y las Villas (Jaén, Spain). 

Ciervo (Deer)

Sent by R (Spain).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

September theme: TOURIST SITES

• Week 1 - Nature reserves, parks, gardens
• Week 2 - Castles, palaces
• Week 3 - Fun for kids
• Week 4 - Museums, art galleries, theatres

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sea Paradise

Envelope sent by Fabienne (France), made out of a calendar.

It included a postcard from a lighthouse that is on top of my places-to-visit list! With a matching stamp:

Phare de Cordouan

And two more beautiful sea-related stamps:

Saint-Malo

Usine maréomotrice de La Rance

Mickey Stamps

Tell me the odds of two Mickey stamps landing together in my mailbox. 

One was posted in the USA on 29 July, and the other one was posted in Germany, on 1 August. Both arrived on 10 August.

Mickey Mouse as steamboat Willie, 2008

Disney 100 Years, 2023

Watermelon Life - 2

I got the perfect reply to this letter...

Sunday Stamps | Canadian Landscapes

The stamps above belong to the multi-year UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada series. From left to right: The Landscape of Grand Pre, Nova Scotia (2016), SGang Gwaay, British Columbia (2014) and Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia (2014).

From the From Far and Wide series. Above: Abraham Lake, Alberta (2020) and Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, Yukon (2020).

Below: 

• Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (2020)
• French River, Prince Edward Island (2020)
• Iceberg Alley Near Ferryland, Newfoundland (2019)
• Arctic Bay, Nunavut (2018)
• Prince Edward Island National Park, Prince Edward, 2018
• Parc national de l'lle-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Perce (Quebec), 2018

Both series are among my favourites. I only wish the stamps were a bit bigger!

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Landscapes on stamps!

Postbox Saturday | Barcelona (III)

Plaça Sant Jaume

Carrer de la Diputació

Plaça de la Farga

How Old-fashioned It All Was

«Es va preguntar quan havia estat l'últim cop que havia escrit una carta, va ser conscient de com n'era, d'antiquat, tot plegat; bolígraf, paper, sobre, segell, bústia.»

Gerbrand Bakker, Deu oques blanques

Lavender Letter

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Peace Is the Highest Value of Humanity

I have published several posts about the Peace Stamp Project. I have got a bunch of wonderful envelopes from different countries. And I still hope to get some more.

But no doubt that the most meaningful is this one, received from Ukraine.